“Nothing comes close”

The 1987 Austrian Grand Prix was held at the fast and curvy Österreichring on 16 August 1987. The race was plagued with accidents. One of them being when Stefan Johansson hit a deer with his McLaren MP4/3. Johansson was not hurt, but sadly the deer died instantly.

The powerful Williams-Honda FW11B’s dominated the event with Nelson Piquet on pole just in front of team-mate Mansell, but the Brit (picture above) was unstoppable in the race, taking the flag a massive 55 seconds ahead of Piquet, with Italian Teo Fabi (Benetton-Ford) a distant third, one lap down.

Nigel Mansell remembers: “Nothing comes close to the FW11B, nothing in the world. Formula One will never get back to that. Really, today’s drivers will never know what a proper F1 car feels like. In qualifying you had 1500 bhp and wheelspin in 6th gear at 180mph (290 km/h)!”